The factors affecting broiler breed households to participate in contract farming were statistically analyzed by using the investigation data of 201 broiler breed households from 11 regions in Hebei province. The results showed that the income proportion of breeding chicken of broiler breed households increased with increment of fixed investment, [...]

This paper quantifies the costs and benefits of contract farming of milk and identifies factors that influence farmers' participation in contract farming. Contract farming is more profitable than independent production.

The contract poultry farming has been criticised by many researchers as being exploitative, in spite of its advantages to the poor farmers. This paper aims to bring out the perceptions of poultry farmers on the contract broiler farming they were engaged in. The required data were collected by personally interviewing [...]

The purpose of this paper is to offer an empirical analysis of contract farming for poultry in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh in India. Through a probit equation, the factors that relate to farmers' participation in contracting are evaluated. The estimation of income gains is considered within a treatment [...]

This study compares contract and non-contract growers of apples and green onions in Shandong Province, China in order to explore the constraints on participation and the impact of contract farming on income. It finds little evidence that firms prefer to work with larger farms, though all farms in the area [...]

This study compares contract and non-contract growers of apples and green onions in Shandong Province, China in order to explore the constraints on participation and the impact of contract farming on income. We find little evidence that firms prefer to work with larger farms, though all farms in the area [...]

This report documents the experiences of twenty-five companies contracting smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe to produce cotton, tobacco, paprika, sugar cane, vegetables, sorghum and various seed and legume crops in a hyperinflationary environment. The only company contracting farmers to produce livestock processes ostriches for their meat and leather. The report [...]

This article determines whether geographic diversification would be sufficient as a risk management tool for institutions that lend to farmers, to limit their credit risk.

Foreign direct investments in land can bring economic growth, but they may also have negative impacts on the income and food security of the local population. Using rubber production in Laos as an example, this paper illustrates how concessions and contract farming affect the local population and how their situation [...]

This study examines the potential of corporate social responsibility for poverty alleviation among contract sugarcane farmers in the Nzoia Sugarbelt,Western Kenya. Although contract sugarcane farming is the most dominant and popular land use among farmers in Nzoia Sugarbelt, results from a 2007 study suggests that the intended goal of increasing [...]